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Autobiography and the Existential Self

Studies in Modern French Writing

by Terry Keefe · May 1995

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This is a collection of 10 essays (plus Introduction and Conclusion) on autobiographical writings of various kinds, including novels and plays, by authors who have some kind of connection with French 'existentialist' thinking: Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, Nizan, Leduc, Genet and Guibert. It explores aspects of the relationship between 'self' and writing.

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